Khatami Is A Symptom And Not The

I Think Islam Is In A Sense, In Crisis. It Needs To Question And Re-question Itself.

The Existence Of The Writer Is To Write, And To Write Is To Tell The Truth.

I Believe That It Is Only Through Empathy, That The Pain Experienced By An Algerian Woman, A North Korean Dissident, A Rwandan Child Or An Iraqi Prisoner, Becomes Real To Me And Not Just Passing News. And It Is At Times Like This When I Ask Myself, Am I Prepared - Like Huck Finn - To Give Up Sunday School Heaven For The Kind Of Hell That Huck Chose?

Living In The Islamic Republic Is Like Having Sex With Someone You Loathe.

Most Great Works Of The Imagination Were Meant To Make You Feel Like A Stranger In Your Own Home. The Best Fiction Always Forced Us To Question What We Took For Granted. It Questioned Traditions And Expectations When They Seemed To Immutable.